Hi, Nelson wrote: Looks interesting. Forty-six papers, each with a brief essay by Harry Lewis setting the context. ‘...with an emphasis on the period of 1936-1980 but also including important early work’. Amazon shows 4.8 out of 5 stars after 26 ratings: 77% 5*, 23% 4*. https://amzn.to/3rkvPaU One review says ‘The book originated from a discussion course the author taught at Harvard’, another points out Thompson's ‘Reflections’ is missing. :-) Amazon's ‘Look inside’ works to give a flavour. The list of papers is: - Prior Analytics (~350 BCE), by Aristotle - The True Method (1677), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843), by L. F. Menabreca - An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (1854), by George Boole - Mathematical Problems (1900), by David Hilbert - On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936), by Alan Mathison Turing - A Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine (1937), by Howard Hathaway Aiken - A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (1938), by Claude Shannon - A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (1943), by Warren McCulloch, Walter Pitts - First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945), by John von Neumann - As We May Think (1945), by Vannevar Bush - A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948), by Claude Shannon - Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes (1950), by R. W. Hamming - Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), by Alan Mathison Turing - The Best Way to Design an Automatic Calculating Machine (1951), by Maurice Wilkes - The Education of a Computer (1952), by Grace Murray Hopper - On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem (1956), by Joseph B. Kruskal, Jr. - The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization (1958), by Frank Rosenblatt - Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation (1960), by Norbert Wiener - Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960), by J. C. R. Licklider - Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (1960), by John McCarthy - Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962), by Douglas C. Englebrt - An Experimental Time-Sharing System (1962), by Fernando Corbató, Marjorie Merwin Daggett, Robert C. Daly - Sketchpad (1963), by Ivan E. Sutherland - Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits (1965), by Gordon Moore - Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Program Control (1965), by Edsger Dijkstra - ELIZA -- A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine (1966), by Joseph Weizenbaum - The Structure of the “THE”-Multiprogramming System (1968), by Edsger Dijkstra - Go To Statement Considered Harmful (1968), by Edsger Dijkstra - Gaussian Elimination is Not Optimal (1969), by Volker Strassen - An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming (1969), by C. A. R. Hoare - A Relational Model of Large Shared Data Banks (1970), by Edgar F. Codd - Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970), by Winston W. Royce - The Complexity of Theorem-Proving Procedures (1971), by Stephen A. Cook - A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval (1972), by Karen Spärck Jones - Reducibility among Combinatorial Problems (1972), by Richard Karp - The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974), by Dennis Ritchie, Kenneth Thompson - A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication (1974), by Vnton Cerf, Robert Kahn - Programming with Abstract Data Types (1974), by Barbara Liskov, Stephen Zilles - The Mythical Man-Month (1975), by Frederick C. Brooks - Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks (1976), by Robert Metcalfe, David R. Boggs - New Directions in Cryptography (1976), by Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman - Big Omicron and Big Omega and Big Theta (1976), by Donald E. Knuth - Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs (1977), by Richard DeMillo, Richard Lipton, Alan Perlis - A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems (1978), by Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, Len Adelman - How to Share a Secret (1979), by Adi Shamir -- Cheers, Ralph.